and your first pregnancy. And if you want to learn for yourself, for your personal community, and for a new community that you will create out of thin air—make it a small food shop, in Manhattan, the hardest and most competitive place in the world to “make it” as a restauranteur.Open it in the West Village, one of the most beautiful urban neighborhoods in the country, where neighbors cram themselves into irrationally misshapen and often comically small, decades-old apartments because it’s worth it for the cobblestones and the slanting sunset light in the evenings, and the scores of flowering trees on quiet streets.